Anthony Alexander Forrest
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1884 –
Who is Anthony Alexander Forrest?
Anthony Alexander Forrest was an Australian rules footballer and soldier who was killed in the Second Boer War. The son of Alexander Forrest, a politician and twice Mayor of Perth, he attended The High School in Perth, Western Australia. Aged 15, he also played two games of senior football for the Perth Football Club in what is now the West Australian Football League, becoming one of the youngest players to play in that league. Forrest enlisted in the 5th Western Australian Mounted Infantry in 1900, and was killed the following year near Carolina, Transvaal, at the age of 16. He was the first Western Australian footballer to be killed on active duty, and the only Western Australian footballer killed in the Boer War.
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